Camp Slaughter
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Movie Review: matt dallas fan
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this movie because I'm a Matt Dallas fan. I've seen clips of it before. I thought it would be good. It wasn't that good like I expected.Movie Review: Move over atomic bombs and cell phones, Camp Slaughter has now replaced you as "worst thing to ever happend to mankind"
Summary: 1 Stars
Some horror movies are so bad the audience laughs. Others are so bad the audience can do naught but stare, slack jawed and with glazed over eyes, wondering what the producers and director were smoking to make them think this movie would be a good idea. Then there is the third category, which Camp Slaughter falls firmly into, that are so bad one might wonder if there is some sort of bizarre plot to resurrect a long forgotten dark deity of death and despair by getting enough people to watch something as horrible as this. Other than to wearily discuss the whole train wreck with your coworkers the next day around the water cooler, there is literally no entertainment value whatsoever to be derived from Camp Slaughter.
Apparently this is supposed to be a tribute to the whodunit style of teen slasher films of years long gone. How something can be labeled a tribute, when it is worse than every single teen slasher movie put together, is a question that should be put to Alex Pucci, who directed the whole gods-forsaken mess. Savvy horror movie buyers will notice there are actually film festival awards listed on the back of the DVD case, indicating the movie was actually praised by an independent panel of judges, leading many to believe the film might be worth buying. After viewing Camp Slaughter, it will become painfully obvious that either the film festivals referenced don't exist, or Pucci himself oversaw them.
None of this criticism is intended in any way to discourage Pucci and co from doing any future films. After all, you've gotta crawl before you can run. Camp Slaughter just happened to not even be out of the womb yet. It's clear that this was intended to be a great slasher flick, and that a lot of work went into it, it's just that every single facet of the movie failed on a level never seen before. The word "acting" can't even be used in reference to camp slaughter, it's really more like a bunch of young kids goofing off in front of a camera. Almost every scene of the movie is an extreme close up of someone's face. Add to this the fact that when the camera cuts from one extreme close up to another of people who are supposedly in the same scene talking to each other, the time of day and sounds in the background obviously change, it becomes apparent that the director couldn't even get all of the cast to show up at the same place at the same time for shooting. Anytime some sort of assumed action is occurring, the camera switches to comical warp speed reminiscent of ultra low budget TV shows to try to hide the fact that nothing is actually happening.
The standard elements of a slasher style horror movie are all used throughout the script, but they all inevitably fail, each more spectacularly bad than the last. It all starts by the number, with a group of teens driving down an empty expanse of the Great American Highway System. Of course, the vehicle breaks down at an inopportune time leaving the teens stranded in strange surroundings. The intrepid travelers soon discover there is a killer amongst them (but who?), there's a lot of unnecessary dialogue and explaining of why the killing is happening, and then finally the whole thing ends with the "oh no the terror isn't really over" ending that should have been dumped with the Friday the 13th series. To discuss the specifics of what is going on in this particular slasher entry would be to lend some sort of legitimacy to the plot, which anyone who enjoys horror movies should staunchly refuse to do.
Maybe with an expanded budget, some actors who have at least a modicum of talent, a script that doesn't lead viewers to randomly commit suicide, and a little more experience under their belts, the criminals responsible for Camp Slaughter will give us something that fits in the "so bad it's funny" category. In the meantime, don't be surprised if Cthulhu rises from his watery sleep to rest control of the earth from the gods of light once again.
Movie Review: One of the worst attempts at movie making I've ever seen.
Summary: 1 Stars
I knew this movie was going to be bad when I rented it, but I watch ALOT of bad horror movies, and besides, it had some accolades on the back, so I thought there was always a chance it could end up being a good way to spend an evening. What I discovered, however, was that this movie was so much more astronomically bad than I ever could have guessed in my wildest of dreams. It looks like an inexperienced and clueless high school students misguided attempts to use his weekends in a more productive way than his usual watching wrestling and getting stoned. Everything in this movie was just done so horribly. The camera work is terrible, the directing is without any kind of skill, the actors all look like friends from math class coaxed into reading from cue cards. The audio is SOOOO awful, and the editing is painfully amateurish. Lighting and sound is inconsistent from cut to cut, the dialogue is so bad you'll be grinding your teeth with every line. The plot is all so convoluted and ineffectively conveyed that I wondered if I had been punked when I rented this, and half expected Ashton Kutcher to be behind it all. All in all, I can't think of a single thing they did well in this movie. I am well aware that this was made by children, and that there are difficulties I'm sure they were able to conquer with commendable effort, but the end result is that there is just nothing here whatsoever that is worth watching, and there is no talent involved with this horrid mess. A second glance at the back cover will reveal that BOTH the positive comments are from the same place, something called "The Meatgrinder." I've never heard of "The Meatgrinder," but I'm guessing that it's somehow involved with the making or distribution of this movie. I just cannot and will not accept that anyone's honest opinion of this chore to watch was that it was good. It's so bad that it transcends opinion, it's poor quality is an unshakable fact. It's not even "MST3K it with your buddies" bad, because we tried. It's just awful to watch.Movie Review: Makes Friday the 13th look like high art.
Summary: 1 Stars
It's supposed to be a tribute to the slasher films of the 80's. Granted the genre has never set out to do anything intelligent, but this film brings the idea to an all new low. The premise seemed promising enough. They're all stuck living the same horrific day over again. (Why? How? We don't know) The problem is that they're aware of the fact. So why are they repeating the same things over as if they don't know? Sure they say that they're limited in what they can do, but that obviously doesn't include talking about it. In long lecture like bits of dialogue, I might add. It just doesn't add up at all. If only there was some more camp in this camp then it might be good on the Cheese Whiz scale, but it just comes off as pathetic. The worst part of it is the editing. In so many scenes someone starts to attack, then they cut away; typical of low budget horror. Some times you cut to an angle where you just see a silhouette hacking or something, as you'd expect. Unfortunately, most times though they cut to a shot where it's already happened. They skip over the kill entirely. The sound isn't much better. So many times the sound just cuts out too. Usually, durning scenes where a better movie would have dubbed in a sound effect. An arrow hits a body, silence. A body falls, silence. Did they run out of money, or did they just forget? In short, it's an amateurish film made by no talent hacks who need to find a day job. Finally, what is up with those two guys? Is this camp brokeback?Movie Review: Not A Homage ! This Is An Unbearable Insult To The Slasher Genre !
Summary: 1 Stars
"The slasher film of the new millenium" my a$$! "The coolest retro camp killer since Sean Cunningham's(Friday the 13th)reinvented the genre" ?WHAT? Horror movie fans BEWARE! DO NOT BE FOOLED!(like i was) & this come's from a huge fan of ultra low-budget horror films such as "REDNECK ZOMBIES" "FEAR OF CLOWNS" "DEAD LIFE" "SCRAP BOOK" & the masterful "ICE FROM THE SUN". Horror fans Alex Pucci's "CAMP SLAUGHTER(aka:camp daze)" is a pure waist of $$$ & time! How this film won awards absolutely puzzles me to no end. The only thing good about this film is the (groundhogs day idea) everything else fails miserably! I'd take up way to much space explaining all the ridiculous flaws so to sum it up EVERYTHING $UCKED from the camera work,Direction,kills(every other victim gets stabbed with a spear,how creative is that),the sound was horrible & last but certainly not the least the acting was nauseating,i mean it made the acting in "REDNECK ZOMBIES" & "DEAD LIFE" seem oscar worthy. With all that said I'm still the SUCKER that waisted 94 minutes & 20$ on this very good idea that completely fails to materialize.So let me be your guinea pig (the test faild) horror fans please don't bother with this one it will be a big mistake!